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HIGHLAND
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English
English : of uncertain origin; it could be a Scottish habitational name from Hughston in the Highland region but is more likely a variant spelling of Houston.
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Scottish
Scottish : nickname for a fair-haired person, from Gaelic bà n ‘white’, ‘fair’. This is a common name in the Highlands, first recorded in Perth in 1324.Northern English : nickname meaning ‘bone’, probably bestowed on an exceptionally tall, lean man, from Old English bÄn ‘bone’. In northern Middle English -Ä- was preserved, whereas in southern dialects (which later became standard), it was changed to -Å-.Northern English : nickname for a hospitable person, from northern Middle English beyn, bayn ‘welcoming’, ‘friendly’ (Old Norse beinn ‘straight’, ‘direct’).English and French : metonymic occupational name for an attendant at a public bath house, from Middle English, Old French baine ‘bath’.French : topographic name for someone who lived by a Roman bath, from Old French baine ‘bath’ or a habitational name from a place in Ille-et-Vilaine, named with this word.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Behn.George Luke Scobie Bain (1836–91) was born in Stirling, Scotland. He ran away to sea and successively lived and worked in Portland, ME, Chicago, and St. Louis, where he was a miller and flour merchant and a very prominent citizen.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : nickname for a person with a sunny temperament. Compare Merryweather. There is a legend that a Scottish family of Highland origin assumed this name in punning allusion to Job 37:22, ‘Fair weather cometh out of the north’. At the present time the surname is most frequent in East Anglia.
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Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Highland
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Celtic American Gaelic Scottish
Crooked nose. Nickname of a Highland chieftain with a crooked nose.
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English
English name derived from the wine name, from the name of a place in France which got its name from Latin Burgundiones, literally BURGUNDY means "highlanders." May also sometimes be given as a color name.
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Muslim
Highland
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English
English : occupational name for the servant of a parish priest or parson, or a patronymic denoting the child of a parson, from the possessive case of Middle English persone, parsoun (see Parson).English : many early examples are found with prepositions (e.g. Ralph del Persones 1323); these are habitational names, with the omission of house, hence in effect occupational names for servants employed at the parson’s house.Irish : usually of English origin (see above), but sometimes a reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Phearsain, which is of Highland Scottish origin (see McPherson).Members of an Irish family called Parsons wre twice created earl of Rosse, first in 1718 and again in 1806. They settled in Ireland c.1590, when two brothers, William and Laurence Parsons, were granted large estates. Birr Castle, Parsonstown, became the family seat. Samuel Holden Parsons, born Lyme, CT, in 1737 was a Connecticut legislator and revolutionary war officer. Theophilius Parsons (1750–1813) was born in Byfield, MA, and was chief justice of the MA supreme court (1806–13); his son, also Theophilius, was a professor at Harvard Law School (1848–1869).
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Highland
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English, Scottish, and Irish
English, Scottish, and Irish : variant spelling of Hyland.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Heiland.
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Hindu
Sing gods praise or glory, Lord Shiva
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Australian, Biblical
The Gift of the Lord
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Hindu, Indian, Tamil
Sun
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American, British, Chinese, English, French, German, Indian, Latin, Parsi, Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish
Alive; Vibrant; Full of Life; Lively; Life
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Pure
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African, American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Indian, Jamaican, Latin
Clear; Luminous; Famous; One who Lives Near the River Clare; Of Clare; Bright; Name of a Place
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Hindu, Indian
Name of a Goddess
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Biblical
Contempt, abomination.
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Traditional
Lord Krishna
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Hindu, Indian
Friendly
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n.
Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
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A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
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An inhabitant of highlands, especially of the Highlands of Scotland.
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Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.
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One of an ancient race of people, who formerly inhabited a great part of Central and Western Europe, and whose descendants at the present day occupy Ireland, Wales, the Highlands of Scotland, and the northern shores of France.
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A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
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Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland.
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Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country; a low or level country; -- opposed to highland.
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A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of the Lowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.
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The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands.
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A Highland air, suited to the particular passion which the musician would either excite or assuage; generally applied to those airs that are played on the bagpipe before the Highlanders when they go out to battle.
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The war cry, or gathering word, of a Highland clan in Scotland; hence, any rallying cry.
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A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel.
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A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlanders of Scotland. [Variously spelt.]
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A kind of short petticoat, reaching from the waist to the knees, worn in the Highlands of Scotland by men, and in the Lowlands by young boys; a filibeg.
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A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
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Highlanders, collectively.
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A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier.
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A bard among the Highlanders of Scotland, who preserved and repeated the traditions of the tribes; also, a genealogist.